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Israel at the European Baseball Championship


This is a record of Israel's results at the European Baseball Championship.

During the 2016 C-Level qualifier, Dean Kremer was named the Euros’ Most Valuable Pitcher and Simon Rosenbaum was named MVP. During the 2016 B-Level qualifier, Kremer once again won the Most Valuable Pitcher award.

Israel led teams at the 2016 competition in almost every statistic possible during the C-Level qualifiers. They led in hitting with a .309 average, .450 on base percentage, .509 slugging percentage. They also were the leaders in runs with 53, home runs with 9 and hit by pitch with 20. In addition to hitting they led in ERA with 1.05, strikeouts with an average of 11.5 per nine innings, opponents batting average with .140 and fielding percentage of .973. Israel was tied for stolen bases with 23, which Romania led with 26. The only other statistics Israel did not lead in were walks and doubles.


Israel competed in the qualification for the 2010 European Baseball Championship, in July 2008. Israel went 2-2 and finished in 3rd place, based on the tiebreaker stat of runs against per 9 innings. Israel lost their first two games, against Bulgaria and Croatia, before coming back to win their final two games, against Serbia and Lithuania.

Israel competed in the qualification for the 2012 European Baseball Championship. In addition to competing, Israel hosted one of the qualification pools from July 26–29, 2011. Israel was eliminated from the tournament after going 2-1, finishing in second place behind Great Britain who went 3-0. Israel won their first game against Georgia, lost their second game against Great Britain, before coming back to beat Lithuania in their final game. Israel went on to compete in the home/away finals against Great Britain, where they won the first game but lost the second, with Great Britain advancing to the main tournament.

Going into the round, Great Britain was expected to come win, being ranked 21st, followed by Lithuania at 48 and Israel at 57.

Israel competed in the qualification for the 2016 European Baseball Championship.


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